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surprised that more young men don't take advantage of this 

 exhilarating amusement. Saturday is usually a sort of half- 

 holiday, and the hounds don't generally meet till two o'clock. 

 The season is now nearly over, but next year I hope to see a 

 great addition to the rank of subscribers, as a more health- 

 giving and gentlemanly amusement does not exist. 



LANARKSHIKE AND RENFREWSHIRE FOX- 

 HOUNDS. 



"Free from care, from pain, from sorrow, 

 Haste to Finlayston to-morrow, 

 There shall our steeds outstrip the wind, 

 While time and age creep far behind. 

 No long vigils of love we keep. 

 Nor evening cups protract our sleep ; 

 But ere the sun has reached the skies. 

 Fresh as the morn we gladly rise. " 



Tuesday, l7th (Neilston Station). — Found at once in 

 Uplaw Muir. The fox crossed the road and ran up the hill to 

 Loch Libo Coverts, but wheeled down by the loch, and went 

 up the steep hill on the north side of the toll, where the horse- 

 men got behind. In getting to the top, the hounds were seen 

 streaming away over the moss. Here they threw up, and 

 Squires could not get to them, but they cast beautifully them- 

 selves and raced away on to the Skiff, going through which, 

 at least ten minutes ahead of the field, they ran their fox 

 down to the strip near Howood Toll. They then rattled 

 him out of this, and threw up at an old deserted farm-house, 

 when they feathered all round about. Mr. D. Kippen, who 

 thought the fox must be somewhere near, jumped off his 

 horse and poked about with his whip, and sure enough there 

 was Mr. Foxy snugly hid in an old pigstye, when, it is need- 

 less to say, he will never rob another hen-roost. This was a 

 very fine run for hounds, but from the state of the going it: 

 was impossible to live with them. 



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